Adalia decempunctata

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Ten-spotted lady beetle
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Adalia decempunctata. Forma typica
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Larva of Adalia decempunctata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Coccinellidae
Genus: Adalia
Species:
A. decempunctata
Binomial name
Adalia decempunctata
Synonyms< [1]
List
  • Adalia (Adalia) decempunctata (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Coccinella decempunctata Linnaeus, 1758
  • Coccinella decempustulata Linnaeus, 1758
  • Coccinella guttatopunctata Linnaeus, 1758
  • Coccinella bimaculata Pontoppidan, 1763
  • Coccinella quadripunctata Linnaeus, 1767
  • Coccinella sexpunctata Linnaeus, 1767
  • Coccinella tredecimmaculata Forster, 1771
  • Coccinella octopunctata Fabricius, 1775
  • Coccinella pantherina DeGeer, 1775
  • Coccinella didyma O.F. Müller, 1776
  • Coccinella austriaca Schrank, 1777
  • Coccinella flava Goeze, 1777
  • Coccinella variabilis Fabricius, 1777
  • Coccinella subpunctata Schrank, 1781
  • Coccinella bipustulata Herbst, 1783
  • Coccinella humeralis Schaller, 1783
  • Coccinella marginata Thunberg, 1784
  • Coccinella tredecimnotata Thunberg, 1784
  • Coccinella bimaculosa Herbst, 1786
  • Coccinella biguttata Fabricius, 1787
  • Coccinella limbata Gmelin, 1790
  • Coccinella lunigera Brahm, 1790
  • Coccinella mutabilis Gmelin, 1790
  • Coccinella thunbergi Gmelin, 1790
  • Coccinella ulmiOlivier, 1791
  • Coccinella unifasciata Scriba, 1791
  • Coccinella varians Olivier, 1791
  • Coccinella lutea Rossi, 1794
  • Coccinella marginella Thunberg, 1795
  • Coccinella sexmaculata Thunberg, 1795
  • Coccinella similata Thunberg, 1795
  • Coccinella tricuspis Thunberg, 1795
  • Coccinella lunularis Marsham, 1802
  • Coccinella marginepunctata Marsham, 1802
  • Coccinella curvipustulataHaworth, 1812
  • Coccinella lunaepustulata Haworth, 1812
  • Coccinella clathrata Schaufuss, 1862

Adalia decempunctata, the ten-spotted ladybird or ten-spotted lady beetle, is a carnivorous beetle of the family Coccinellidae.

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The ten-spotted ladybird was one of the many species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae , its original name was Coccinella decempunctata. [2] Its specific name from the Latin decem "ten", and punctata "spotted". [3]

Varietas

Varietas include: [4]

Distribution

Adalia decempunctata is a common Palearctic species found in Europe, North Africa, European Russia, the Caucasus, Siberia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Transcaucasia and western Asia. [1] [5] [6]

Description

Adalia decempunctata can reach a body length of about 3.5–5 mm (0.14–0.20 in). This species is highly variable. Individuals may in fact have a red, orange or brown ground colour and between 0 and 12 distinct dark elytral spots, although rarely more spots have been recorded, up to 15 spots. These beetles have a glabrous body, with an almost round form. Legs and antennae are usually brown or orange. [7] The species includes eight varietas, with three basic forms. The light form shows five to seven black spots on the pronotum and several black spots on the red-orange elytra. The dark form is mainly black or brown in color, and the pronotum has a light border on the sides and front. The mixed form has black or brown in color elytra, each with five orange to red spots. Sometimes these ladybirds have no spots at all.

Biology

It occurs in western European broadleaf forests eastern deciduous forests, Sarmatic mixed forests, at forest edges, and in parks and gardens wastelands and in Eurasian Steppe, Pannonian Steppe biotopes. It is found on bushes and deciduous trees, on grasses, under bark, in moss on trees, in leaf litter, on brushwood, coarse woody debris and in alluvial soil. [8]

The insects feed on aphids on trees and bushes. [9] The adults overwinter in litter and among fallen leaves.

Related Research Articles

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<i>Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata</i> Species of beetle

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<i>Propylea quatuordecimpunctata</i> Species of beetle

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<i>Coccinella undecimpunctata</i> Species of beetle

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<i>Calvia quatuordecimguttata</i> Species of beetle

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Eighteen-spotted ladybird Species of beetle

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<i>Brachyta interrogationis</i> Species of beetle

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<i>Chilocorus bipustulatus</i> Species of beetle

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<i>Hippodamia variegata</i> Species of beetle

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<i>Anatis ocellata</i> Species of beetle

Anatis ocellata, commonly known as the eyed ladybug, is a species of ladybug in the family Coccinellidae. It has black spots on a red background, with each spot surrounded by a yellowish halo. In one color variation, a specimen found in Scotland was reported having the spots fused to form longitudinal lines.

<i>Subcoccinella vigintiquatuorpunctata</i> Species of beetle

Subcoccinella vigintiquatuorpunctata is a beetle in the family Coccinellidae. It is the only member of the genus Subcoccinella. It has the typical, almost semi-spherical, ladybird shape and is patterned with spots. However it differs from many of the well-known ladybirds in being neither smooth and shiny nor an eater of aphids: the wing-cases look velvety and it eats fungal moulds on plants.

<i>Aphidecta obliterata</i> Species of beetle

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<i>Anisosticta novemdecimpunctata</i> Species of beetle

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<i>Coccinella hieroglyphica</i> Species of beetle

Coccinella hieroglyphica is a species of beetle in family Coccinellidae. It is found in the Palearctic. Coccinella hieroglyphica is found in Europe, European Russia, Siberia, the Russian Far East, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Korea. In Europe, in the north beyond the Polar circle, in the south to Northern Italy. They live in heath and moorland habitats to heights of 1,200 meters, on different Ericaceae, feeding on aphids. Other, less preferred, habitats are wet meadows, marshes, wastelands, and mixed forests. Other host plants are Pinus abies and other Pinus species and various Betula species. Their populations vary greatly from year to year. They fly from May to October and overwinter in coarse woody debris under pines and birches. In the former USSR, it is aphidophagous on Salix species, birches, and on Alnus and Poaceae

<i>Myzia oblongoguttata</i> Species of beetle

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References

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